Thread regarding Ford layoffs

@2rkg and @2wry: The real issue = 'Politics is King !'. Our product will be what the current regime wants it to be, and our culture will be brutally forced to conform to the new marxist norm.

Someone repeat some of the comments from the Ford Minus meeting!

@2frd+1fcbFIuf yep management pretty much burned morale of actual workforce down with their greed. Good luck getting anyone to put in more than 54% going forward.

Anyone reading the Chat during the Building Ford+ meeting? LMAO!

Are you kidding? Bill has not done nearly enough for social justice.

Did he stop the company from building dangerous to society cop cars??

No he didn't.

The sad part is that many that agree with Bill's politics probably are happy with him being politically outspoken. The sad part of that stance is that if he were on the other side, those people would be hopping mad. The best stance to take is that politics have no place at work, including from leadership. Regardless of whether or not you agree with leadership's bent.

Too many do not get that. As long as they are happy, then it is fine.

That's the sad part to me, is that Ford went from a company that the employees loved and were proud to work for, to one that most of are just surviving until we can find another job or retire. I used to wake up in the mornings energized and raring to go, to get into the office and start making a difference. Now I just get up and dread the first meeting of the day.

And it has little to do with merit and AICP. I am fine with the amount of money I make. It is the constant distractions around Bill's latest political endeavor. The DEI meetings that are "voluntary" but really mandatory. Jim's reading from a screen to me in meetings. The lack of leadership. For me the last straw was Bill releasing a statement on Georgia's voter ID law! Really? Who cares what he thinks on that issue.

It is all of the non-work distractions that have made this a difficult place to work for. They need to turn off the noise and let us go back to work on the designing the best vehicles and features that we possibly can. Another commenter said it, they've taken their focus off of the most important thing. And when you do that the most important thing suffers.

If they offer a package this year, I will take it. Not the same place I originally hired into.
Our focus on the customer has been lost for some time. The company bread & butter is the F-Series. Period. You don't hear the ROI for any of these EV's. Which is pretty scary given the company wants to go 40-60% by 2030.
When I go, I will take the lump sum. I hope the glass house gets their act together and fix the quality and improve the execution of our launches.
If the senior management is serious about winning stop taking money out of platforms like the F-Series. I have heard VP's make comments about the test standards being too hard vs. competition. Well for the record those standards made the F-Series. Not cost cutting. But our current management bench is like the Lions. Who for the past 25 years since Ford 2000 have been watching the Superbowl vs. Participating in it?
I am not a racist or sexist, just put people in place who know what they are doing. We are a shell of what we were. Stay out of politics focus on Product. After all, "PRODUCT IS KING".

Pipedream? Maybe. But Joe should have got the job over Farley. Instead, Hackett let Joe take the fall for the Explorer launch. Which was much more of a Bill problem since Bill allowed the Chicago agreement to include hiring of gang members and others with criminal records. Funny, when you hire garbage, garbage is exactly what they produce.

But no, Joe had to go. Because you certainly couldn't blame a Ford, and Hackett was untouchable because he hired Harbaugh at Michigan. So instead let's reward Chris' cousin because if nothing else, he knows how to brown nose.

Why in he-l would Hinrichs ever come back after being tossed to the side?